[alice] behind the door

She didn't know how long she'd been in here, all she knew is she had been wandering the strange town, and she was suddenly here. Someone had brought her here. The person seemed to have been nice enough -- a Granny, if she was remembering right, but she had also been a bit stressed and emotionally stricken so her mind could be makings up for her again.

Which is why she found herself here. For her protecting, someone had said. It was cold in here, but it wasn't like the other places she had been. It was more like holding area; but for some reason she had a feeling this quiet was because of the methods they probably used. She wondered it was the poison or table here too? She had given her cell a good look, and found nothing of interest of it. So she sat, and waited, not noticing that the necklace she wore around her neck began to glow brighter and brighter...


Hours passed, and it seemed to be late, or early, she didn't know, there was no windows. But he necklace had finally caught her attention. The glow was just too bright. It couldn't be true, could it? She picked it up off her neck to study it further and held it towards the door.

And the door swung open.

"...Cy...cyrus?"

When he bolted towards her, and took her into his arms. It almost felt like a dream, and she would wake up any second, and she would find herself back in that institution her father had put her in --- she wasn't waking up, and he was talking to her. Oh, gosh. The wish had work. She threw her arms around his neck, kissing him none-all-too-subtly; to hell with subtlety. This was neither the time or place for any of that. When she pulled away she was breathing roughly. Yep. He was here. Good. Not dreaming. Good.

"I'm sorry, Cyrus. I... I panicked. I saw you falling and, it just happened." She nodded at his question. "It's like they didn't really know what to do with me. Someone just brought me here cause they didn't know where else to take me. I kinda just... arrived in the middle of the street and some kind old woman led me here. But that's not important."

She pulled away slightly. "This is a strange place. And I thought Wonderland was strange."

She smiled as he trailed kisses against her jaw. She did feel bad though. Quite terrible really. She believed they could figure out what this world was. Her hand went to the pocket the two remaining wishes were. She would not use them. That was the only, and the last time. His bottle was buried in a place only they could find, and they were far away from it. It was almost like they were getting that... particular wish, where they would run away, together, to a different land.

The good news, no Red Queen here.

Least she hoped.

She chuckled at him, for trying to make a joke out of the whole affair. She was saving him quite a bit, wasn't she. She shook her head. "We should get out of here. I heard talk; the old woman who brought be here seemed to own an establishment in which one could... be loaned a room for the night, maybe we can take up there, and figure out a plan?"

"Did you look for long?" she asked, curious. To her, he seemed to have found her rather quickly, regardless. Which she was thankful for. It wasn't like the Red Queen had followed them here, to stop them again. But now they seemed to have a larger issue than the Red Queen just trying to ... collect... Cyrus. Alice frowned for a moment, before moving towards the door and opening the door, looking down the hall. "My only guess is... to find the exit? It seems like this place is usually well labeled?"

She pushed the door til it stood open wide for them to walk through it, and she turned to Cyrus expectantly.

It was like yet another adventure, this.

Two weeks?! She blanched. She had been in that horrid place two weeks? How in the world did she not go mad?
Well, there'd certianly been a lot of people to talk to. Some girl named Aria -- she was nice enough, she also seemed, not of this world either. She had always been talking about how her friend was going to come back for her, eventually. Alice really hoped that was true. Other wise the place wasn't that bad, really. Time did move fast here though.

She went through the door, looking cautiously left and right. For some reason it felt really late. She cautiously moved through the hall. The nurse's station was empty, and the door near it was ajar. "Come on, we need to move fast."

She bolted for the door.